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Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Childcare Education and Training Support (CETS) programme was introduced in September last year and is implemented by my Department. The CETS programme provides free childcare places to qualifying FÁS and Vocational Educational Committees (VECs) trainees and students. Under the CETS programme, funding is provided by my Department to participating childcare services in return for the...

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Vietnamese authorities deposited the instrument of ratification of the Hague Convention earlier this month. Therefore, the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption will enter into force for Vietnam on 1 February 2012. As provided for in Section 72 of the Adoption Act, 2010, the Adoption Authority may establish administrative arrangements concerning the processing of applications with...

Written Answers — Information Technology: Information Technology (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The IT services for my Department, the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Office of the Ombudsman for Children are provided by the Department of Health on a shared service basis. I understand my colleague, Dr James Reilly T.D., Minster for Health, will take account of these offices in his overall reply to the Deputy. There are no leased computer servers in the remaining two agencies under...

Written Answers — Information Technology: Information Technology (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The IT services for my Department, the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Office of the Ombudsman for Children are provided by the Department of Health on a shared service basis. I understand my colleague, Dr James Reilly T.D., Minster for Health, will take account of these offices in his overall reply to the Deputy. IT services for the Family Support Agency are currently provided by the...

Written Answers — Infrastructure Investment Plan: Infrastructure Investment Plan (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: Under the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme, 2012 - 2016, €8 million has been allocated to my Department for each year from 2012 to 2016. €6.5 million of this funding will be allocated to the Childcare area of my Department. €0.25 million will be used to continue to provide small amounts of grant funding to assist Parent and Toddler groups, particularly in areas of...

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The negotiation of bilateral agreements on intercountry adoption with non-contracting states is governed by Section 73 of the Adoption Act 2010 which states that "the Authority, with the prior consent of the Minister, may enter into discussions with any non-contracting state concerning the possibility of the Government entering into a bilateral agreement with that State." Ethiopia, as it...

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: Details of the resource allocations made available to my Department in 2011 under Vote 43 which are supported by National Lottery funding are set out in the table. Subhead Title Allocation D Grant-in-Aid Fund for General Expenses of Youth Organisations and other Expenditure in relation to Youth Activities (Part Funded by the National Lottery)The funding under this Subhead supports certain...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The application based funding scheme administered by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs under Subhead G of Vote 43 provides grant funding to individuals, groups and organisations involved in the provision of services to children and young people. The current value of applications received by my Department since its establishment in June last amounts to just over €2.4 million and...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Childcare Education and Training Support (CETS) programme was introduced in September last year and is implemented by my Department. The CETS programme provides free childcare places to qualifying FÁS and Vocational Educational Committees (VECs) trainees and students. Under the CETS programme funding is provided by my Department to participating childcare services in return for the...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Childcare Education and Training Support (CETS) programme was introduced in September last year and is implemented by my Department. The CETS programme provides free childcare places to qualifying FÁS and Vocational Educational Committees (VECs) trainees and students. Under the CETS programme funding is provided by my Department to participating childcare services in return for the...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The schoolreturn.ie system requires schools to submit absence reports to the National Education and Welfare Board (NEWB) on a quarterly basis. Some schools submit this information manually and in order to capture this data in a timely manner and to assist schools with their queries, the NEWB employs data entry staff from Arcline and Gillian Black. Staff are used only as required and are...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Ferns Inquiry Report was published in October 2005 and contained 20 separate recommendations. The then Government accepted all of the recommendations. Many of the recommendations related to the provision of services and accordingly, from a child welfare and protection perspective, were taken forward by the HSE given its statutory responsibilities in this area. In this context the HSE...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (22 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: There are no former holders of the Office of Attorney General currently on the boards of any State Agency under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: In line with the Programme for Government I am committed to delivering on the Ryan Report Implementation Plan which committed to the recruitment of an additional 270 social workers. 200 of these new posts were in place by the end of 2010. The HSE National Service Plan includes financial provision for the recruitment of a further 60 social workers this year. I have been assured by the HSE...

Written Answers — Inter-County Adoptions: Inter-County Adoptions (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Adoption Act, 2010, commenced on 1 November 2010. This coincided with Ireland's formal ratification of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption. The purpose of the Adoption Act, 2010, is to improve standards in both domestic and inter-country adoption. The regulatory framework governing adoption has been strengthened in an...

Written Answers — Inter-County Adoptions: Inter-County Adoptions (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 and 213 together. The Adoption Act, 2010, commenced on 1 November 2010. This coincided with Ireland's formal ratification of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption. The purpose of the Adoption Act, 2010, is to improve standards in both domestic and inter-country adoption. The regulatory...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: My Department does not directly lease any property. The details of the leasing arrangements for my Department's office location at Mespil Road, Dublin 4, are dealt with directly by the Office of Public Works.

Written Answers — Missing Persons: Missing Persons (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: Under EU telecoms rules agreed in 2009, the 116000 number is reserved in all EU member states for a missing children hotline. In a recent debate on this issue in Seanad Éireann, on 12th October last, I gave a commitment to work with relevant Departments and agencies to establish this Hotline in Ireland in 2012. I also announced my intention to establish a cross-sectoral Project Team to...

Written Answers — Missing Persons: Missing Persons (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive for the information in question which I will forward to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Missing Persons: Missing Persons (17 Nov 2011)

Frances Fitzgerald: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive for the information in question which I will forward to the Deputy.